Rachel Brosnahan and Alex Borstein lend their fast-talking charm to Amy Sherman-Palladino's 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'
by Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times
Dec 01, 2017
4 minutes
NEW YORK - Rachel Brosnahan and Alex Borstein, stars of the Amazon series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," are posing for photos on a window sill overlooking Midtown Manhattan as a swarm of stone-faced handlers looks on.
In an effort to lighten the mood, Brosnahan, who plays a housewife-turned-comedian in the series, tells a joke - but, as she warns preemptively, it's a British joke.
"Why did the lobster blush?" she asks. "Because the sea weed."
The punchline is met with silence, then a few delayed groans of realization. But Borstein is baffled: "I don't get it at all."
Luckily, the jokes land more successfully in "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,"
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